1553 Portuguese sailors caught in a storm are allowed to unload their merchandise in Macau. 1557 The Portuguese are allowed by Guangdong authorities to put…

In recent years, the legal profession has been referred to by the Chinese as a “flourishing industry”, with the connotation that it is overwhelmingly popular,…

For several decades, the question of labour was largely abandoned by sinologists in their research. By the same token, China’s joining the ranks of industrialised,…

Neßhöver book is a precise, detailed and clear description of Germany and France’s China policy during the 1990s, faced with the new international order created…

Taiwan’s democratisation has been more than democratisation. It also gave birth to “Taiwanism”, a term that I believe captures the essence of the emerging civic…

Studies on the history of Taiwan, both from Taiwan and the United are on the increase. In the case of Taiwan, this corresponds to an…

This illustrated encyclopedia is an ambitious but comprehensive work about the overseas Chinese. It was arranged by Lynn Pan, founder and co-ordinator of the Chinese…